Idea 89 of 500. Cluster 4: The experience economy
Escape rooms and puzzle experiences built on local history
The mechanism, from the book
An app that tells people what is happening tonight converts a day visit into a 2-night stay.
Every idea in cluster 4 uses this mechanism.
A first step
Design one puzzle game around a local legend or historical event and set it up in a spare room for one weekend. Invite groups of friends and colleagues in Colombo to play at a trial price, and time them. Groups who finish and book again, or bring others, prove it works.
- Who pays first
- Groups of friends, colleagues and families looking for a new evening out, and visitors on rainy days.
- What leaves today
- Escape rooms are a paid format anyone can copy; local history is the puzzle nobody elsewhere can.
The idea and the mechanism are from the book. The first step was written for this site as a suggestion; if you know a better one, say so.
The test
Does it keep value that now leaves the island, or build the proof that lets somebody else do so?
The only test any idea on this site has to pass. The four rules that go with it are here.
In the book
- Ch. FiveThe Most Photographed Rock in the World
What a day visit needs in order to become 2 nights
More from cluster 4
- 71Evening cultural performances on a fixed nightly schedule
- 72Moonlit storytelling: the legends, the kings, the histories
- 73Royal feast dinners recreating historical menus
- 74Costume and photography experiences
- 75Archaeology-themed treasure hunts for children
- 76Private guided tours led by historians and archaeologists
Idea 89 of the 500 in the appendix of Why Not Sri Lanka? Every one can be started by one person, one family or one small firm.